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Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today (Jo Barbree) “Live from CAPE CANAVERAL” Jay Barbree This book is for… The damnedest aviation and space writer I’ve ever seen… MARTIN CAIDIN SEPTEMBER 14, 1927—MARCH 24, 1997 (Caidin Collection) Contents PREFACE BY TOM BROKAW ONE Sputnik TWO The Early Days THREE The Astronauts FOUR First in Space FIVE John Glenn SIX On Orbit PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT SEVEN The Worst of Times EIGHT Gemini NINE “I’ve got a fire in the cockpit!” TEN A Christmas Moon ELEVEN The Secret Side of Space TWELVE Highway to the Moon THIRTEEN The Landing FOURTEEN Moon Walk FIFTEEN The Successful Failure SIXTEEN On the Moon SEVENTEEN After the Moon EIGHTEEN A Handshake in Space NINETEEN Down Home with Jimmy Carter TWENTY The Space Shuttle Era TWENTY-ONE Challenger: A Disaster TWENTY-TWO What Happened? TWENTY-THREE An Eternity of Descent TWENTY-FOUR Sudden Death TWENTY-FIVE How High Is Up? TWENTY-SIX As the Century Turned TWENTY-SEVEN Columbia: Had They Only Looked TWENTY-EIGHT That’s a Wrap! SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR CREDITS COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Preface Jay Barbree was present at the creation of the space age. As he likes to tell it, he was on a date in his home state of Georgia the night the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 passed over the United States. I don’t know what happened to his date, but I do know Jay decided at that moment to make the space age his life’s work. He moved to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and began a lifelong love affair with the space program, quickly developing a reputation as the reporter who knew the personalities, the technology, the politics, the triumphs, and the tragedies of this daring enterprise better than any other. Now, fifty years after Sputnik 1, Barbree gives us a vivid, first-hand account of how the race into space changed the world. It is a monumentally important story, and no one is better equipped to tell it from the ground up. Barbree is the only reporter to have covered every mission flown by astronauts. He was there the day Apollo 1 burned, the day Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff, the day Columbia broke up in the skies over Texas. In his own way, Jay Barbree has been to the moon and back, the space station and back. He’s also been on the verge of death and brought back to life. Training for the Journalist in Space Project, Jay suffered “sudden death” while jogging on the sands of Cocoa Beach. He made a heroic recovery and returned to what he loved best: reporting on the space program. Live from Cape Canaveral is his up-close and personal account of a half- century of space exploration. It tells the stories of the courage and genius of the pioneers. But it also describes the mistakes, the feuds, the wild times, and the indelible impression left by these men and women who allowed us to escape the bonds of Earth and fly into the unknown. A thousand years from now, historians will mark this time as the beginning of the greatest age of exploration ever. Jay Barbree takes you on that first giant step for mankind. TOM BROKAW August 24, 2006
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